Life

He was born in Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire is a county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west...

, entered the University of Leyden on 22 July 1647, and there graduated M.D. In May 1650 he was incorporated first at Cambridge and then at Oxford. He was examined as a candidate at the College of Physicians on 10 May 1650, and was elected a fellow on 15 November 1655. He was elected assistant physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital on 13 May 1653 and held office till 1669.

He was appointed lecturer on anatomy to the Barber-Surgeons' Company in 1656, and in 1663 Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys FRS, MP, JP, was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man...

 heard him lecture. He delivered the Harveian oration

Harveian Oration

The Harveian Oration is a yearly lecture held at the Royal College of Physicians of London. It was instituted in 1656 by William Harvey, discoverer of the systemic circulation. Harvey made financial provision for the college to hold an annual feast on St...

 at the College of Physicians, in which, as in his lectures, he speaks reverently of William Harvey

William Harvey

William Harvey was an English physician who was the first person to describe completely and in detail the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped to the body by the heart...

. He was one of the original Fellows of the Royal Society

Royal Society

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Terne died at his house in Lime Street, London, on 1 December 1673, and was buried in St. Andrew's Undershaft. His library was sold on 12 April 1686 with that of Dr. Thomas Allen

Thomas Allen

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Works

The only writings of Terne that were printed were some Latin verses on Christopher Bennet which are placed below his portrait in the Theatrum Tabidorum. The Harveian oration exists in manuscript (Sloane MS. 1903). His ‘Prælectio Prima ad Chirurgos’ and other lectures were preserved in the Sloane Collection in the British Museum. The lectures, which are dated 1656, begin with an account of the skin, going on to the deeper parts, and were delivered contemporaneously with the dissection of a body on the table. Several volumes of notes of his medical reading are preserved in the same collection, and an essay entitled ‘An respiratio inserviat nutritioni?’

Family

He married Susan, daughter of Henry Borne. His daughter Henrietta married Dr. Edward Browne.

External links

• RCP page

Attribution